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UNITED STATES PATENT OFrIoE.

FRANK D. STQNE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.-

IMPROVE MENT IN PAPER BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,295, dated August 18, 1874; application filed August 7, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK D. STONE, of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, .have invented a certain new and Improved Paper Box, of which the following is a complete description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings formin g a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents the package as out before folding up. Fig. 2 is a top view of the package when folded up ready for use. Fig. 3 is an end View of the same. Figs. 4 and 5 are sections to which reference will be had.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The nature of this invention relates to a package for butter, made of paper or its equivalent; and the object thereof is to wrap up butter for table use in packages of from one to five pounds, as may be desirable.

Of the construction, arrangement, and advantages of the package, the following is a description in detail:

The paper being first cut into theform or shape seen in Fig. l, a former or block of an oblong, square, or other convenient shape, of the size corresponding to that of the package to be made, is placed upon the section A of Fig. 1, which figure represents the package as being spread open before folding. When the section B is turned upward against one side of the former, and section 0 across the top, thus surrounding the top, bottom, and one side of the former, then the narrow part D of the wrapper is turned down upon the opposite side of the former. of the former being now inclosed, the ends are covered, first, by creasing the wrapper, as indicated by the dotted lines E in said Fig. 1, and folding them so that the dotted lines F will be folded over, and parallel with the lines G, thus forming half a square or triangle, as seen at H, Fig. 3, which will cover one-half of the ends in the direction of the linear m, Fig. 3; then the gussets I of the parts J are turned under, as indicated by the dotted lines a in said Fig. 1, and the parts J turned down over the ends, as indicated by the dotted lines b,

The three sides Fig. 2, thus bringing the square sections K of the wrapper up, thereby covering the entire ends of the former. The gussets e are now folded in the direction of the crease, which crease is indicated by the dotted lines. h, thereby bringing the points 11 and j together, and then lapped over against the opposite side from that already covered by section B. The section M of the wrapper is now turned up, thus covering the remain ing side of the former; then fold the square sections 0 of the wrapper in direction of the dotted lines a, bringing the two corners b 0 thereof together, thus forming a half square or triangle, and bringing the wrapper in the position shown in Fig. 4, which laps over onto the ends of the former, as shown in Fig. 3, and thus bring the wrapper in the position shown in Fig. 5. Now lap section N of the wrapper over onto the top, as shown in Fig. 2; then turn down the points P over onto the section N, as shown in said Fig. 2, thus completing the construction of the package.

It will be observed that there is a small slit, Figs. 1 and 5, between the section N and the points P, so as to lap the points over onto the section N, as shown in Fig. 2.

The folds or creases (indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1) may be made before it is formed upon the block or former.

By this way of making a package, the corners, ends, and top are protected by two or more double laps of the material, which gives additional strength to the wrapper or package.

The package being constructed the size and shape of the cakes of butter to be put therein, it is then partially opened out, and the cakes of butter are molded and placed inside the package, and then folded up again, in the manner as above described, as seen in the drawings.

The advantage of thus constructing butterpackages (in the above-specified manner) is, that the butter remains intact until it is taken out from said package, ready to be placed upon the table in a neat manner.

To give additional protection to the butter, and to prevent its becoming rancid, it is designed to coat or saturate the material (before The box-blank composed of section 0, havor after it is made into a package) with some ing gussets I I and e e, flaps J J and 1), secinnoxious compound that will prevent the tions AB M, and folds K and 0, parts P, and elimination of the properties of the butter, flap N, slitted and creased as described, and and arrest the absorption of external gases or for the purpose herein specified.

agents that would tend to injure the butter FRANK D, STONE.

when within the package. Witnesses:

What I claim as my invention, and desire A. F. CORNELL, to secure by Letters Patent, is- W. H. BURRIDGE. 

